Hi -
I need help capturing the output of a RegEx search.
I dont understand why this conditional fails.
Here is the code:
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#!/usr/local/bin/python
import os
import re
dirName = '/home/user/bin/logs'
os.chdir(dirName)
files = os.listdir(dirName)
for myFile in files:
# print 'checking ...', myFile
reCheck = ''
reCheck = re.search(r'\bCC_', myFile)
# print 'reCheck = ', '=', reCheck, '='
if reCheck == "None":
print myFile, ' ..... does not qualify'
else:
print ' ', myFile, 'qualifies...', reCheck
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The problem is that reCheck never == None.
So all of the files "qualify". My understanding of the
re.search (re.search(r'\bCC_', myFile)) is ...
1) give me only files that start with a word boundary (\b)
2) followed by a (CC_)
3) in myFile
Why doesn't the output of the re.search load reCheck with valid data?
(like "None")
Thanks
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